United States v. Dwight L. Burton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that asking for consent to search a vehicle did not unreasonably extend the scope of an ordinary traffic stop
• holding that violations of “local and state traffic laws” gave an officer probable cause to make a stop
• holding that “asking a few questions about illegal activity” to the driver of an automobile stopped for a traffic violation at 11:30 p.m. in a high-crime area is not unreasonable.
• officer has probable cause to conduct a traffic stop based on reason to believe that a city ordinance has been violated
• officer has probable cause to conduct a traffic stop based on reason to believe that a city ordinance has been violated
• pre Muehler, upholding brief unrelated questioning where, inter alia, “[t]he record provide[d] no reason to suspect ... that asking [the questions] made this traffic stop any more coercive than a typical traffic stop”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).